Our First Plan

This is mine and Rosie first plan for our trailer. We have made a brainstorm of what our trailer could be about.

After making this mind map, Rosie and I decided that we wanted to make a Horror trailer as we thought this would be fun to experiment with. There are many different categories that we found to do with horror, for example, Supernatural horror.

After deciding on our genre, we did some research on horror trailers. There is quite a recurring pattern throughout these trailers. We found that there was always tension music, very often resembling a heartbeat. The pace of the trailers usually starts slow, getting faster as the suspense gets higher.

 I researched the trailer for “Dawn of the Dead”. Throughout this trailer there is high pitched music the gets louder. There is a slogan in the middle of the trailer saying “When there’s no more room in hell, the dead will walk.” This makes the audience want to know what is going to happen next. As the pace gets faster there are a few blackouts making it seem like the trailer is over, however, the screen then flashes to something frightening that is going to happen.

This is the link to the trailer for “Dawn of the Dead”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LUzJAsa-gg

Our Ideas:

We made a brief plan of what type of horror trailer we wanted to make. We made a timeline of how the trailer would begin and end.

We had the idea that our story would be based on a woman with someone following her. Our trailer would start off with the young woman getting into her car sometime in the day, we also wanted to put a in a shot from behind a tree, as if someone were watching her. It would then become dark and again she would be in her car. We then had the idea of her seeing something in or at the side of the road, making her panic and stop, making her get out to check and move the object, giving the stalker time to get into her car. We wanted to have some high pitched music here creating tension. The next shot would be of the women running through the forest away from the person; the pace of the trailer would then speed up. The end shot would be of our character hiding behind a tree and in the background we will see a dark figure emerge from behind her ending with a scream. This is where we would then put the title and information of the film’s release date.

These are just our first plans for our film and are quite brief.